IndianDreaming

It'd be easy to change the polarisation direction now, just flip the crystal over 90 degrees and let the light out.

Awesome little fish creating patterns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-UxqM8MRI

I think I'm actually more excited about the sunflowers than I am about the pumpkin! My cockatoo sure will be!

The pharmaceutical companies don't make any money if they cure people... it would be bad for their business to bring out a medicine that you took once and were cured... they need you to come back every month and buy more for the rest of your life.

It's funny this thread popped up! I'd bought sunflowers a month ago ready to go in with the giant pumpkin! GAME ON!

I have blue lotus in leaf and extract form if you wanna give it a go... all herbal though, no adulterants...

Graham Hancock's take on Intelligence and evolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKHMH4FfWrw

I give a shit about other peoples gardens, I enjoy seeing their gardens because they are better than mine, and I find that motivating and inspirational, and yes, when I tell them wow - that's a nice garden, I'm sure they get a 'back pat' out of it. Some people didn't grow up with the support they needed in life, and try to garner it any old how they can get it, be it bragging about a garden, or by hacking on gardening posts - we're all the same my friend, we're just looking at each other from our side of the fence and often shaking our heads at each other... or smiling and throwing fruit at each other In a world where everyone is taught to be an individual, it's hard to be completely selfless because eventually the selfish people suck you dry.

There's a great article about an octopus climbing out of its tank, slopping across the floor and up a table into another tank and eating the fish after the researchers went home... surely that sort of act can convince someone that animals aren't stupid... Also - my dog is 12 years old, it's never been a very bright thing, and never dug a hole in its life, not once. A friends puppy came to stay for a week, digging like mad, and now, my 12 year old dog will dig and bury it's food. Old dogs can learn new tricks too! Now for the people... c'mon humans, you can do it!

Quantum computers are cool! People can update their status to "I had cereal for breakfast" before they've even eaten it! WOW...

^ Life tastes so much better with a squirt of blood, a splash of sweat and a generous sprinkling of tears... Edit: And a giant pumpkin to gloat over!

If you'll accept a courier to pick up... it'd bid $90

Did you get a batch of mini pumpkin seeds incog to throw the comp?? I smell trickery...

cogito ergo sum - I think, therefore I am... Edit: It's actually a double pun, ergograph - an instrument that measures and records the amount of work a muscle does during contraction...

Something like this Spine? Or the nang induced version...

^That's an interesting point about the square! There's a really good description of that effect in one of Feynman's books, I think the book is called 6 not so easy things - and he talks about little bugs living in a 2d world, a sphere and a hotplate - it's quite cute - and goes a bit like this: A little bug can tell if his world is curved by measuring the angle of a triangle... In a 2d world, a triangle has 3 x 60 degree angles. In a spherical world, a triangle can have 3 x 90 degree angles! But: If the bug is living on a hotplate that is hotter in the middle and gets colder the further out he goes towards the edge of the hotplate, his little ruler expands in the middle and contracts on the edge - and given the right temperature change, his triangle can have 3 right angles too (3 x 90 degrees)... If you look at time as another dimension, and let it accelerate continually instead of being linear - you can do away with 'the expansion of the universe' and big-bang theory, and see it as time is increasing, not the physical dimensions expanding. It makes a lot more sense than everything speeding away from itself physically... If you use todays time as your clock, and you look into the past, it'll be blobby and slow down the further you go. Shulgin writes about it quite well in his BBB v's IOU description of the universe - Tihkal.

WOW Penis arrived today - absolutely spectacular, bigger than the pic showed, nice and green - Thanks Benzito!

Physicists would disagree with the above statement... Also - if you're on the surface of the earth, and you sit one clock on top of another one, they run at different speeds and show different times, so clocks don't actually work very well, they do work, but they're different in different locations... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation

Richard Feynman is fun to watch, if you like physics and the intricacies of time from a mathematical law-reversibility viewpoint. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kab9dkDZJY

It appears that none of these laws are based on logic, reasoning or common sense. How do you go about tackling this issue? There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, other than to have control over states of mind. Control over money was had back in tho 70's so it can't be about that. I'm not a politically minded person, so this sort of thing baffles me to no end...

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Prepare to die! Haha, I don't even know what you're talking about, but it sounds like a heart felt apology so I'll add some humour here to lighten the mood (at least I find it humorous, your mileage might vary, but if it does, get a better sense of humour...)

Gilligan: Lol - neither do I really, but we've been brought up to believe that time is 'constant' and that it ticks at a certain rate, and I just don't think that is accurate. Looking at the work of the scientific elite and frames of reference, we're each experiencing our own time, and unless someone is physically co-located in your 3d space - their perception of time is different to yours; even if it is just by 2.9 x 10^-8 seconds, give or take a few hundred billionths of a second... SunChaser: Sounds like you could do with a change of job...

I've had multiple experiences where time slowed down to a stop, and when it did, I tangentially went off in another direction for a bit, before returning to this timeline. Hard to explain, but I feel that time is the axis for a set of 3 three dimensions, as in: experientially we're plummeting along a 'timeline' in 3d which is our reality - a few things can slow it down or speed it up, which causes your perception of your 3d space to warp a bit; sight, sound, feeling etc. go a bit weird, which is fun (if you're into that sort of thing). But when you take it to the extreme, your perception of time slows so much that you can get a feel for what beings that live on a different timescale experience, such as a tree that may live for 1000 years, you're in the 3d reality it would experience as 'normal'. For x amount of minutes in your local time, you're living in a 1000 year lifecycle 3d space. Its so out of the ordinary that it's hard to find the words to accurately depict what I'm trying to say

I'm thinking of weighing a palette, and when I get the winning pumpkin to a decent size I'll pop it on that to grow. From there it'll be easier to move it and attach it (and the palette) to some scales, and also to move it a bit farther from the house for its ultimate disintegrative demise... Ice: That was a good post, watched a bit of the docco and got all sorts of inspiration. Even a bit of Aussie camaraderie swelled up and I had a few moments imagining the news headlines "Australian pumpkin takes world record" - We're in it for the whole country here folks, make no mistake - this pumpkin contest could very well start an international pumpkin growing epidemic.